Space Filler

I was calling the nurse as she was calling me. I clicked over and we had some small talk. Finally I said, "Enough of this. tell me the news."

I've been thinking a lot about the nubmer zero. What if zero fertilized? Dr. BusyBusyBusy told us to expect about half of the eggs to fertilize. That would be four, not zero.

When my youngest brother was a kid, he used to have dreams about giant numbers chasing him off the side of a cliff. Sometimes, he confessed last weekend when I had the brothers and their girlfriends over, it was dots. And sometimes they were chasing him off the side of a cruise ship. we usually have a good guffaw about this, but I've been more sympathetic to the enormous fear of numbers or lack of them. Zero. What if?

This morning Partner checked the sperm bank. There are zero vials of Thor left. (Thor=sperm donor) There was the zero I was concerned about, right? Right?

Right. All eight eggs fertilized. And all eight are looking good. We scheduled a five day blast transfer. That's Tuesday, folks. Tuesday. Everything between now and then-- just space filler.